Ukraine should occupy no more space in my brain than Uzbekistan or Xinjiang but for the whims of fate, in particular my living in Chicago for 30 years, where I made some Ukrainian friends, and the Cuban diaspora after the communist takeover, including two close relatives who wound up in Ukraine. Those connections now fuel my …
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Uncle Vlad and his unsinkable Russkies
Last week I finished Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl, a thrilling, if at times technically dense, account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, just in time to tune in the first installment of an HBO documentary on the same subject. Such are the benefits of all that spare time offered by retirement.Chernobyl, officially the V. I. …
Governing is not at all like running a business
Pretending that government can be run like a businessis foolish for both politicians and the country. During last year's presidential jamboree, and Ross Perot's short-lived run for president in 1992, I heard many friends say—sometimes pounding their fists on the table for emphasis—that what America needed was someone who could run the country like a business!Presumably …
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